Top 5 luxury villas in Phuket and Koh Samui for your next holiday

Ask people to name the most beautiful places in Thailand, and you'll often hear Phuket and Koh Samui being mentioned. Who would disagree? One is renowned for its bustling nightlife, vibrant culture, and lively beach scene, while the other is famed for its calm waters,...

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  • Habitat Group honoured with ten awards at 2019 PropertyGuru Thailand Property Awards

    Habitat Group honoured with ten awards at 2019 PropertyGuru Thailand Property Awards

    PHOTO: Winners, the Habitat Group lead by CEO, Mr. Chanin Vanijwongse Thailand’s premium property-for-investment developer, Habitat Group, has received high acclaim at the 2019 PropertyGuru Thailand Property Awards being honoured with ten awards, including the highly coveted Best Boutique Developer. In addition, Habitat Group’s flagship Walden brand and its expertise in developing properties for investment …

  • Thai developers revising strategies after a drop in Q2

    Thai developers revising strategies after a drop in Q2

    Some of Thailand’s largest property developers have reported drops in revenue and profit in Q2 2019. The slump follows commercial banks in Thailand reining in loan approvals in response to a new loan-to-value regulation that took effect on April 1. • AP (Thailand) reported total Q2 revenue of 4.8 billion baht, down 25.9% compared to …

  • Radisson brand add another Phuket hotel to its portfolio

    Radisson brand add another Phuket hotel to its portfolio

    The Radisson Hotel Group has signed a deal for a 222 key mixed-use hotel on Phuket’s north west coast at Mai Khao. Set to open in early 2023, the hotel has sales and leaseback units under a hotel residences program. Radisson Phuket Mai Khao Beach is being developed by Thai-Chinese Property Holdings. Phuket’s ongoing development …

  • Amnesty program for unlicensed Thai hotels finishes September 9

    Amnesty program for unlicensed Thai hotels finishes September 9

    PHOTO: We needed a photo of a small hotel. So this is The Small Hotel in Krabi (already licensed!!) The Thai government has issued guidelines for unlicensed hotels under their amnesty program. Hotels must submit applications and complete improvements before September 9, so time is of the essence. Baker McKenzie Thailand has outlined the process and …

  • Chewathai launches seven new property projects in Bangkok despite slowdown

    Chewathai launches seven new property projects in Bangkok despite slowdown

    Listed property firm Chewathai says they are revising down their revenue target for this year from 2.8 billion to 1.6 billion baht after demand for residential projects has shown a slowing down in the first half of 2019. The company’s managing director Boon Choon Kiet made the announcement yesterday. Boon says Chewathai’s total revenue of …

  • Lower demand but Thailand is still China’s favourite international property market

    Lower demand but Thailand is still China’s favourite international property market

    The Yuan has dropped in value against the Thai baht and China remains in the midst of a long-running trade spat with the US. But, still, the Chinese investors are still buying up Thailand property although not at the same rate as they did last year. But juwai.com, specialising in Chinese real estate, predicts further …

  • Laguna Phuket launch entry-level condos

    Laguna Phuket launch entry-level condos

    Laguna Phuket has launched a new entry-level condominium project named SkyPark. Pre-launch pricing ranges from 2.9 to 4.3 million baht for fully furnished units. The SkyPark development has three condominium blocks of approximately 140 units each, so 420 units in all. Unit types start at studios (28 square metres), one-bedroom (30-39 square metres) and two-bedroom (40-60 …

  • Ananda development pulls the plug on Bangkok condo project

    Ananda development pulls the plug on Bangkok condo project

    Property developers Ananda Development have pulled the plug on the development of a condo project, Ideo Q Phahon-Saphankhwai, valued at 10 billion baht, and will refund down-payments made by customers who booked units since the April launch. Ananda Development’s chief strategy officer Sumeth Ratanasrikul says that the demand to buy the project at that location didn’t match …

  • Bangkok’s expat rental trends changing

    Bangkok’s expat rental trends changing

    The number of Japanese expats in Thailand dropped to lower than 20% of the total expats in Thailand for the first time, dropping to 34,133 as of April 2019, a 4% decline year on year, according to CBRE. CBRE are reporting a change in demand and an impact on the rental apartment sector in Bangkok, …

  • Co-working spaces in Bangkok are re-shaping small to medium business office options

    Co-working spaces in Bangkok are re-shaping small to medium business office options

    PHOTO: The Great Room Co-working spaces are opening up around Bangkok and providing a more flexible framework for businesses to grow. Advances in technology, a more mobile workforce, and unpredictable economic growth are reshaping the business environment. In the Bangkok office market, a traditional three-year lease with options to renew and the tenant fitting out the …

  • Residential projects launched in June up, but sale 15% lower than May

    Residential projects launched in June up, but sale 15% lower than May

    As many as 47 new residential projects were launched in Bangkok and its suburbs last month (June), 16 more than in May. This from the Agency for Real-Estate Affairs. The projects combine 13,943 units worth a total of 57.25 billion baht, with per-unit prices averaging at 4.1 million baht, the survey added. The sale of …

  • Property developer confidence takes a dive in second quarter 2019

    Property developer confidence takes a dive in second quarter 2019

    A measurement of real estate developer confidence for the Q2 2019 (April to June) has dropped to 42.2 points from 50.4 points for Q1 2019 (January to March). Thai PBS reports that the second quarter confidence index has fallen below the 50 point median index, reflecting developers’ declining confidence in the economic situation and investment …

  • A drop in demand leaves Bangkok with a glut of completed new condos

    A drop in demand leaves Bangkok with a glut of completed new condos

    A parliament of owls? A murder of crows? A flock of geese? But what’s the collective noun for a lot of available new condo developments in Bangkok? A glut of Condos? As Thailand’s economy is hit by the double whammy of fallout from US-China trade wars and lingering political instability, stricter mortgage-lending rules are also kicking in …

  • Luxury condos change the face of Sathorn Road in Bangkok

    Luxury condos change the face of Sathorn Road in Bangkok

    by Somluck Srimalee, The Nation From Sathorn junction to Taksin Bridge, the riverside section of Sathorn Road has been transformed from a strip of shophouses to luxury residential condos in a gentrification that added 8,000 new apartments to the area. As well, the businesses have shifted to a more modern trade to replace the traditional trades. …

  • Chinese move their purchase power away from Bangkok condo market

    Chinese move their purchase power away from Bangkok condo market

    Chinese condo buyers are veering their purchase power away from the Bangkok property market citing the strong Thai currency, overpricing and a supply glut. 2015 – 5.8 Yuan to the Thai Baht 2019 – 4.4 Yuan to the Thai Baht The rise of the baht and the weakening of the Chinese Yuan over the past …

  • Thai PM acts on illegal and unlicensed hotels and accommodation

    Thai PM acts on illegal and unlicensed hotels and accommodation

    Owners of shop-houses, rented properties, even entire floors of condos – running them as defacto hotels – are about to get the Article 44 treatment. The PM, acting in his capacity as the head of the NCPO (in the days before it is dissolved), says he will bring an estimated 20,000 illegal hotels and accommodations …

  • Risland plans new developments in Bangkok and Phuket

    Risland plans new developments in Bangkok and Phuket

    PHOTO: Artist impression of the new Cloud Thonglor-Phetchaburi Hong Kong-based property developers Risland Thailand say they will spend 8 billion baht launching five residential projects in Bangkok and Phuket. The investment budget of 8 billion baht is an increase from 5 billion in 2018 and 3 billion in 2017, the first year Risland operated in …

  • Tourist Police raid the C Ekkamai condo to arrest people running rooms as ‘hotel’ – Bangkok

    Tourist Police raid the C Ekkamai condo to arrest people running rooms as ‘hotel’ – Bangkok

    PHOTO: Thai Tourist Police Bureau page on Facebook Follow up to a story last week where residents of a condo tower in Bangkok were complaining that many of the rooms were being run as a quasi-hotel. The Thai Tourist Police Bureau sent 40 officialst to the luxury Bangkok condominium. The raid was actually last Thursday, …

  • Boat Pattana’s Cherng Talay villa project reports strong pre-sales

    Boat Pattana’s Cherng Talay villa project reports strong pre-sales

    Thai developer Boon Yongsakul’s latest development Shambala Grand Villa in Cherng Talay is experiencing strong pre-launch sales. With 22 available units, the Boat Pattana group has already reserved 17 units. The landed properties feature two bedroom pool villas with land plots ranging from 300 to 600 square metres. Property management is through an affiliated company and buyers …

  • Chinese owners using condo investments as a ‘hotel’

    Chinese owners using condo investments as a ‘hotel’

    PHOTO: Thai Rath Residents in condos around the country are getting sick of the parade of short-stay travellers using their condo rooms as defacto hotel rooms, travellers renting out their rooms from Chinese owners who run their investments as quasi hotel rooms. Thai Rath reports that “Condo C Ekkamai” (Sukhumvit Soi 63) tenants are at …

  • Condo residents want action as foreigners flaunt rules on daily rentals

    Condo residents want action as foreigners flaunt rules on daily rentals

    PHOTO: Manager Online The ongoing issue of condos and rooms being rented out as daily and weekly rentals, illegally, is making headlines again. A group of tenants went to the media complaining that they discovered owners of apartment rooms in their ‘luxury condo’ on Rama IV were contravening condominium rules and sub-letting their rooms. A …

  • Off-the-beaten-track destinations in Thailand experiencing explosive Airbnb growth

    Off-the-beaten-track destinations in Thailand experiencing explosive Airbnb growth

    PHOTO: Rawai, had Airbnb growth of 92 over the past year Off-the-beaten-track destinations in Thailand grew by 53% year-on-year, with some areas like Rawai in Phuket growing by more than 92% year-on-year. Airbnb hosts outside of big cities and major tourist destinations in APAC earned nearly US$1bn through the Airbnb platform in 2018. 12 million …

  • Wyndham to manage new condo at Layan Beach Phuket

    Wyndham to manage new condo at Layan Beach Phuket

    by Bill Barnett A new Wyndham managed condominium hotel is rising in the Layan Beach area of Phuket. Named the Laya Resort Phuket, the first phase of the project is 300 units of studio and one-bedroom configuration. The new development will be situated about 400 metres from Layan Beach. Pricing starts from 150,000 baht a …

  • MGallery brand partners with MontAzure in Phuket

    MGallery brand partners with MontAzure in Phuket

    Kamala’s MontAzure “integrated development” along the northern stretch of Kamala Beach, is rolling out a 236 unit hotel branded residences project. The MGallery Residences, MontAzure Lakeside, features both studio and one bedroom units. The development is located in the foothills on the inland side of the beach road. Initial pricing points generally run from 7.2 …

  • Chinese continue to soak up Thailand’s condo glut

    Chinese continue to soak up Thailand’s condo glut

    There are man reasons why Thailand is a favourite location for property buyers from Hong Kong and mainland China – the street food and great weather are just a part of the allure. Chinese nationals spent a record 40 billion baht (US$1.25 billion) on Thai properties in 2018, according to the Bank of Thailand. So …

  • Leaning Tower of Sathorn: not cracked or leaning says Sathorn district chief

    Leaning Tower of Sathorn: not cracked or leaning says Sathorn district chief

    PHOTO: Daily News The district chief in Bangkok’s swish Sathorn district has been forced to come out publicly declaring a luxury 72 story condominium development under construction in her area was neither cracked nor leaning. The false claims were made in social media after a minor fire in the building’s basement. Daily News reports that …

  • Kra Canal – the 28 Billion Baht shortcut

    Kra Canal – the 28 Billion Baht shortcut

    By Jintana Panyaarvudh Despite a history going back three centuries, the highly controversial and politically sensitive proposed Kra Canal mega-project in southern Thailand is once again up for debate. At a forum held yesterday by Rangsit University entitled the “Stakeholders in Kra Canal@Klong Thai”, national security and the canal’s impact on tourism were among the …

  • Thai property startup FazWaz heads overseas

    Thai property startup FazWaz heads overseas

    FazWaz, the Phuket startup that has built a tech-first platform to take on Thailand’s real estate giants, is announcing its overseas expansion today. The move underscores just how far and fast the company has moved since being founded in 2015 in the small beach town of Kamala in Phuket. While real estate markets go up …

  • Buyback Option at VIP KATA Condominium by Phuket9

    Buyback Option at VIP KATA Condominium by Phuket9

    Phuket9 Company announces a buy-back option for VIP KATA Condominium Project with a rental return of 56% over 8 years. The first two buildings of VIP KATA Condominium were launched in July 2018. After one month in August 2018, Phuket9 commenced construction of the second phase – 2 more buildings including 209 apartments, 2 common swimming pools, rooftop gardens, …

  • Bangkok home prices among the cheapest in the Key Global Cities report

    Bangkok home prices among the cheapest in the Key Global Cities report

    Hong Kong maintains its position as the world’s most expensive residential city, while Bangkok ranks at #33 out of 35 global cities surveyed. In the fifth annual Global Living Report, CBRE profiles the property markets across 35 key global cities. The results highlight that investments in urban areas such as transport infrastructure, connectivity, retail, cultural …